Example Sentences

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One important difference between last year’s crisis and what is befalling New York Community Bancorp: The bank’s deposits appear to be relatively stable.

From New York Times • Jan. 31, 2024

“Then we would see stories about the economic calamity that is befalling our nation,” he said.

From New York Times • Nov. 10, 2015

The look on their faces is at once ferocious and deeply self-aware, as if they understand the inevitability of the fate that is befalling the people they were made to protect.

From The New Yorker • Oct. 26, 2015

The younger members of such a sisterhood are politely supposed to be kept in safe ignorance of the great event which is befalling one of the seniors.

From A Houseful of Girls by Tytler, Sarah

"It is because of what is befalling," said one of the servants.

From The Golden Fleece and the Heroes Who Lived Before Achilles by Colum, Padraic